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WIRE-FENCE ADVERTISER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,792, dated May 31, 1887.

' Application filed January 31, 1887. Serial No.226,102. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ELIJAI-I KITCHEN BARNS- DALE, a subject of Her Majesty, Queen Victo-v ria, residing at the city of Stratford, in the county of Perth, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a certain new and useful Device for Advertising on \Vire Fences, of which the following is the specification.

My invention consists of a sign attached to and between the wires of a wire fence, the ob ject of which is to combine in an economical and conspicuous sign strength to withstand inclement weather and ordinary accidents to which asign in such an exposed position would be liable, and lightness, so as not to create any undue strain on the fence-wires, with simplicity of construction, so that the different parts can be put together without any implements or solder where the sign or advertisement is to be used.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is an end elevation.

The device is most suitably constructed of sheet metal. Y

a a are two strips; I) I), double grooves formed on the strips a a. The strips a a should be about two inches in width. The double grooves b b are formed by turning or bending back a narrow width of the strips c e c are the skeleton characters forming the advertisement, which are cut with projections at both top and bottom d d. The projections d d are bent or turned back in the same manner as the turns or double grooves b b on the strips a a. The double grooves on the projections d d are shown at ff, Fig. 2.

The strips ac are placed parallel to each other with the double grooves b b facing and the grooves f f on the projections (Z d of the characters 0 c c fittedinto the double grooves I) b. The characters 0 c c are then slipped along the double grooves b b to their respective places and form the words or symbols of the advertisement. The grooves b b ff are fastened by being clamped or hammered fiat.

The grooves b bff should he made as shown in Fig. 2, so that when hammered together they will form a lock-joint, fastening together the different parts of the sign as if they were one piece. Wiresjor bands g g, of metal, suflicient in number to keep the sign rigid and free from any swinging or other motion which would have a tendency to shorten its life,

pass round the fence-wires h h and through the slots 0 e in the strips ac, and suspend the sign between the fence-wires. If a metal band is used as a fastener, a lock-joint similar to that connecting the metal strips a a and the skeleton characters 0 c a should be used to fasten the ends together.

I am aware that priorto my invention signs have been made by inserting characters in frames with single grooves fastened together by back pieces by soldering characters at either or both extremities to wires or frames, and by stringing the characters on wires. 1 therefore do not claim such combination; but

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

In an advertising device, the-combination of the fence-wire with the pendent strips 9 secured thereto, and having the horizontal strips attached to their inner ends, upon which are secured the skeletonized letters or figures, the several parts being united by means of the lap-joint, substantially as described.

Stratford, January 26,1887.

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